California’s Marin County defeated allegations that it subjected one of its prosecutors to a hostile workplace and forced him to leave the office after he supported a Black colleague.
The suburban San Francisco county presented evidence that it actually placed the former assistant district attorney on paid administrative leave and barred him from contacting other attorneys in the office so it could investigate a wave of complaints against him. That’s a legitimate nonretaliatory reason for the county’s actions, and the prosecutor failed to show it was pretextual, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday.
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